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Newspaper
The Evening Star
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1872
Page
2
The Danny Evenine Star will be mailed to people who may be away from the city in the summer at 50c per month. A severe rain storm struck about four this morning causing damage in the city and vicinity. Telegraph wires are reported down, hindering any immediate assessment of damage beyond the local area.
A New York telegraph reports that waking Mr. Greeley to announce his Baltimore nomination was an exaggeration. The writer quips that the old philosopher was alert amid national affairs, echoing Major Bagsby’s blunt remark about strategy.
The piece traces Washingtons unanimous elections and the first party contests starting in 1796 with Adams and Jefferson. It notes 1800 Jefferson Burr tie, the House decision after 36 ballots, and 1804 Jefferson Clinton versus Pinckney King as the evolving constitutional system prompts.
A historical survey traces U S presidential elections from 1812 through 1872. It notes Madison and Monroe era shifts, the rise and fall of the Federalists, the emergence of the Whig and Democratic parties, the Civil War era, and final rise of the Republican Party with Grant and the end of the old party system.
A catalog listing graphic travelogue NEW PUBLICATIONS by Bu ra.Lo Lano and W. E. Webb with western exploration and appendix for westward bound readers. Also CONSUMPTION book arguing nitric acid as remedy and opposing alcohol. THE UNITED STATES JURIST quarterly law magazine. THE AMERICAN LAW RECORD covering major U S cases. THE DENTAL REGISTER edited by Prof J 75 with notices and room details. Publication locations include Cincinnati and Chicago.
The piece summarizes M. Morel’s view on liquor’s ruinous transmission through generations. It cites a family where the father’s drunkenness ends in a fatal brawl, the son’s inherited habits trigger mania and paralysis, the grandson’s sobriety is haunted by hypochondria and fear, and the fourth generation shows diminished intelligence with a madness episode.
Readable fragments recount a hospital patient in Lafayette a fourteen year old boy injured by swallowing a screw and other local misfortunes.Reports note milk sickness cases near Pond Grove and a damper on a Sherman agency loss in Indianapolis. Bank approvals and a Republican convention in Indianapolis headline a crowded Indiana political scene with multiple local tragedies and fatalities.
Judgment and taste are contrasted as distinct faculties. Judgment requires intellect, effort, and perseverance to create or grasp complex ideas. Taste gives pleasure from simpler, familiar proportions and can arise from study and experience.
The report describes a ten day roundup by Colorado Mercsmen with help from Wyoming and Colorado riders. They stage rounds with a floating captain, assemble herds moving from dawn to late afternoon, and then proceed to cut out cattle numbering from dozens to hundreds per roundup. The process gathers 500 to 2000 head tightly packed, horned stock jostling as riders manage the capture.
The article describes a large cattle drive with about fifteen hundred older cattle and calves moving in a rapid, demanding process. Relieved by fresh riders and horses, the herd faces strenuous labor, with some calves crushed and elder cattle overwhelmed by over driving. Disputes arise over und branded stock, yet most animals appear thriving and many suitable for butcher’s use. It notes a seven percent loss for the winter in Northern Colorado as of June.
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